# The Police Regulations 1987, Regulation 51: Application of regulations 49 and 50 to members of regional crime squads and motorway patrol groups


(1) This regulation shall apply to a member of a police force who is assigned to duty with a regional crime squad or a motorway patrol group established in pursuance of a collaboration agreement made under section 13 of the Police Act 1964.
(2) Where a member of a police force to whom this regulation applies moves his home and the removal is in the opinion of the appropriate committee of chief officers of police due to the exigencies of police duty or is made at the request of that committee and is, in their opinion, in the interest of the efficiency of the crime squad or patrol group concerned, then notwithstanding the provisions of regulation 49, the rent allowance to be paid to him shall be that which would be payable to him under that regulation if he was a member of the force of the police area in which his home is for the time being situate.
(3) Where a member of a police force to whom this regulation applies does not move his home, then, regulation 50 shall have effect in relation to him—
(a) as if for paragraph (1)(a)(iii) there were substituted the following provision:—
“(iii) in the opinion of the appropriate committee of chief officers of police, is not so living for the sole reason that he could not conveniently return daily to the family home;”;
(b) as if in paragraph (1)(b) for the words “chief officer” there were substituted the words “appropriate committee of chief officers”;
(c) as if in paragraph (1) for the words “30 months” there were substituted the words “24 months”;
(d) as if for paragraph (2)(a) and (b) there were substituted the following provision:—
“if he were living with his family, or, as the case may be, in his former accommodation”;
(e) as if in paragraph (3)(b) for the word “serving” there were substituted the word “living”.
(4) In this regulation any reference to the appropriate committee of chief officers of police is a reference to the chief officers of police who are parties to the collaboration agreement referred to in paragraph (1) or such one or more of their number as they may have designated to act on their behalf for the purposes of this regulation.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/851/regulation/51 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/police-regulations-1987/regulation-51
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